More than one million Montreal residents are being told to boil their drinking water after a malfunction at Canada's second-biggest filtration plant. Full story
The mayor of Portland, Ore., has conceded defeat in an effort to add fluoride to the city's drinking water. Full story
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Actor-activist Matt Damon is urging supporters to join his “Strike with Me” campaign leading up to World Water Day next month to raise awareness of people worldwide who do not have access to clean water and toilet facilities.
A woman leads her donkey while carrying a bucket during her search for clean drinking water in the outskirts of Sanaa May 9, 2013. REUTERS/Mohammed al-Sayaghi (YEMEN - Tags: SOCIETY ANIMALS)
A woman carries drinking water in an inner tube of a tyre in the Yemeni governorate of Taiz April 1, 2013. REUTERS/Mohamed al-Sayaghi (YEMEN - Tags: SOCIETY)
A girl fills jerry cans with drinking water in the Yemeni governorate of Taiz April 1, 2013. REUTERS/Mohamed al-Sayaghi (YEMEN - Tags: SOCIETY)
A family draws drinking water from a well in the Yemeni governorate of Taiz April 1, 2013. REUTERS/Mohamed al-Sayaghi (YEMEN - Tags: SOCIETY ANIMALS)